Our review sessions are similar to the discussion sessions held by your TA's except they are professionally done. Review sessions are all we do: 40 to 60 hours a week, every week of the quarter. That specialization in teaching allows us to provide excellent quality at a low price. Teaching isn't something we do on the side, while we are conducting research or taking courses. Teaching is all we do. When you come to our sessions, you get an experienced professional instead of a graduate student who may be struggling with her own courses, struggling to teach for the first time or just struggling to speak English. It is like having your own private professor at your side, helping to you study for your exams.

The new wave in education. Whether they are called learning centers, college reviews or private tutorials, private instruction is sweeping the country. In many ways, it is just the latest export from Asia, where “cram schools” having been supplementing public education for decades. And it makes sense, because we are prefect antidote to assemble line instruction. Instead of large classes of 100, 200 or even 300 students, we have small classes of 10, 20 or 30 students. We essentially turn back the clock to a time when professors actually knew and cared about you. When they didn't just teach you in 1 or 2 courses, but taught you in all your classes. When your professors were your friends and mentors; not someone who just clicks through power point slides and gives you a grade.

Our office is across the street from UCSD in The La Jolla Square Shopping Center. This is the shopping Center that contains CVS and Whole Foods Market. The address is 8861 Villa La Jolla Drive suite #503. We are located in the South Side of the Mall behind Rubios and next to Elijahs. Map

Step 1 Check the Weekly Schedule To come to our sessions, first check the weekly schedule on our web site to find out when our sessions are scheduled. We usually have our sessions two to seven days before homework assignments are due or midterm exams take place and we try to post our schedule one week before our sessions occur. However, we are constantly responding to new homework assignments or changes in exam dates, so our schedule will change occasionally. As such, you should check our web sites fairly frequently. In generally, we are very reluctant to change our schedule 24 hours before a sessions takes places but anything posted 4 to 10 days in the future should be considered a tentative date and we are not reluctant to change theses dates as we optimizing our schedule for the majority of our students. In fact, we often rely our students to tell us if a time slot doesn't work for them and we will try to adjust our schedule accordingly.

Step 2 Create Your Account In order to attend our sessions or make a reservation, you must first set-up your student account. This is basically your name and an e-mail address. All this information is confidential and will not be shared or sold to any outside firms, academic institutions or government agencies. We use this information to contact you if the schedule changes and to anticipate the demand for our sessions. Some time slots are more popular then others and we try to allocate the most popular time slots to the sessions with the highest demand.

Step 3 Making a Reservation. Once you make your account, you can make a reservation by going to the weekly schedule, logging into our system and selecting the appropriate sessions. You do not need to make a reservation to attend our sessions, but it does ensure that you will be able to get a seat. In general our sessions get more crowded as the quarter progresses and by the time finals occur, it is hard to get a seat without a reservation. There is no cost to making a reservation, but it is important to delete your reservation if you decide not to come. In fact, students who have a history of making reservations but not showing up quickly lose the right to make reservations!

Step 4 Be Considerate and ready to work. Most academics seem obsessed with their intelligence and your ability to learn. I am not. If you are bright enough to get into UCSD, then you are bright enough for me. Instead I obsess about your behavior. I take my sessions very seriously. I try to provide a relaxed and friendly environment where you are comfortable asking questions and where you can develop friendships with the other students in your class. I understand that sometimes you will be confused, lost, disillusioned or unmotivated to keep up with your schoolwork. But if you come to my sessions, you must be ready to work. I love to teach and help people learn, but I cannot stand being around apathetic people. It is fine to want to talk to your friends and use your cell phone, but not during my sessions. I want you to like me and I want to become someone you can trust and depend on, but if I have to choose between being your friend or your instructor, then I will choose to be your instructor. This means that I won't hesitate to ask you to sit-up straight, pepper you with questions if I think your attentions is wandering or confiscate your cell phone if you try to use it during my sessions. I don't do this to be mean, I do this because I want you to succeed. From me, you should expect professional, well-organized and informative sessions. From you, I expect that you will be considerate and ready to work.